À propos de ce poste Production Manager, Asset Maintenance chez Relativity Space
At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.
Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven’t been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you’re in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you’ll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.
About the Team:
The Asset Maintenance Team at Relativity is responsible for maximizing the availability, reliability, and safe operation of manufacturing equipment and critical production assets. We own preventive and corrective maintenance, troubleshooting, equipment recovery, spare parts strategy, and reliability improvements that keep production moving. The team partners closely with Production, Manufacturing Engineering, Facilities, EHS, Supply Chain, and equipment manufacturers to reduce downtime, eliminate repeat failures, and improve equipment performance. In a fast-paced, high-accountability environment, we ensure critical assets are ready to support ambitious production and program milestones.
About the Role:
As an Asset Maintenance Manager, you will own maintenance execution and equipment reliability for manufacturing assets, ensuring safe, responsive, and disciplined support to production. You will lead and develop a team of supervisors, leads, and technicians, strengthen preventive and predictive maintenance systems, prioritize equipment recovery, and drive data-based reliability improvements.
- Lead asset maintenance operations across manufacturing equipment, driving equipment availability, preventive maintenance completion, rapid recovery, and safe execution.
- Manage, coach, and develop maintenance supervisors, leads, and technicians, establishing clear ownership, shift coverage, escalation paths, and performance expectations.
- Own maintenance performance through the CMMS and key metrics, including equipment downtime, response time, repair cycle time, backlog, overdue work orders, repeat failures, and preventive maintenance compliance.
- Partner with Production, Manufacturing Engineering, Facilities, Supply Chain, and equipment manufacturers to troubleshoot failures, complete root cause analysis, and implement permanent corrective actions.
- Develop preventive and predictive maintenance, critical spare parts, and equipment reliability strategies based on asset criticality, failure history, and production risk.
- Manage maintenance spending, service vendors, repair priorities, and equipment lifecycle decisions while balancing safety, production needs, reliability, and total cost of ownership.
About You:
- 7+ years of experience in industrial maintenance, equipment reliability, or manufacturing operations within aerospace, automotive, precision manufacturing, or another high-reliability production environment.
- 3+ years of experience managing maintenance teams, including direct supervision of supervisors or leads.
- Strong technical knowledge of troubleshooting and repair of complex manufacturing equipment, including mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and machine control systems.
- Demonstrated experience building and executing preventive maintenance, CMMS, and reliability programs that improve equipment availability and reduce repeat failures.
- Proven ability to lead root cause analysis, coordinate OEM and vendor repairs, manage maintenance priorities, and support production in a fast-paced environment.
Nice to haves, but not required:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical maintenance leadership experience.
- Experience maintaining complex CNC machine tools, metrology equipment, automation, and supporting manufacturing systems.
- Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP), reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), TPM, Lean, or Six Sigma certification.
- Experience with CMMS, ERP/MRP, maintenance data analytics, spare parts optimization, and vendor or service contract management.
At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.
Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more! To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at [email protected].
Please note: Relativity Space does not accept unsolicited resumes, candidate profiles, or referrals from recruitment agencies or search firms. Any unsolicited submission - via email, our website, social media, or directly to an employee - will be deemed the property of Relativity Space, and no fee will be owed absent a current, fully executed agreement with Talent Acquisition that specifically authorizes submissions for the applicable role.
